#BREAKING Ukraine's Zelensky, in video, says 'We are all here' in Kyiv
#BREAKING Russian carrier Aeroflot says it will halt flights to London and Dublin
#BREAKING NATO deploying response force units to bolster defences: Stoltenberg
#BREAKING British PM: UK plans 'imminent' sanctions against Putin and Russian FM Lavrov
#BREAKING Putin, Lavrov on EU sanctions list: EU foreign policy chief
#UPDATE NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Friday the bloc had activated defence plans and "as a result ... are deploying elements of the NATO Response Force on land, at sea and in the air", including thousands more troops and over 100 jets put on high alert in 30 locations
#UPDATE Russian carrier S7 says it is suspending all flights to Europe: agencies
#UPDATE The UK government on Friday ordered all assets of President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov frozen over Russia's invasion of Ukraine
#BREAKING Moscow says sanctions against Putin, Lavrov a sign of Western 'impotency'
#BREAKING Travel ban would be 'part of the US' sanctions on Putin, Lavrov: W.House
#BREAKING Russia says relations with West nearing 'point of no return'
#BREAKING UK says it is banning Russian private jets from airspace, landing
#UPDATE Maria Zakharova, Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman, told a Russian TV station Friday night that relations with the West "have reached the line after which the point of no return begins"
#BREAKING PM Trudeau announces Canada will sanction Putin and Lavrov, says he supports barring Russia from SWIFT banking system
On the second day of Russia's full-scale invasion, Ukrainian forces fought to defend the capital Kyiv, while many countries implemented personal sanctions against Putin
Read @AFP's recap, with contributions from our newsrooms around the globe: u.afp.com/wAgZ
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BREAKING France's high-speed train system disrupted by vandalism: operator
#UPDATE Hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris #Olympics , France's high-speed rail network has been hit by "malicious acts" including arson attacks that have disrupted the transport system, train operator SNCF says.
"This is a massive attack on a large scale to paralyse the TGV network," SNCF told @AFP, adding that many routes will have to be cancelled and the situation would last "at least all weekend while repairs are conducted"
BREAKING The arson attacks on France's high-speed rail network were coordinated acts of "sabotage", a source close to the investigation tells @AFP
#BREAKING 104 police, 30 journalists among injured in Bangladesh clashes: TV
#UPDATE Protesters in Bangladesh set fire to several government buildings during a day of deadly nationwide clashes between students and riot officers, a police statement said.
"The miscreants have already torched, vandalised and carried out destructive activities," on the offices of state broadcaster BTV and the national disaster management agency along with "various" police and government buildings, said the statement, issued after a nationwide internet shutdown
Bangladesh wakes to torched government buildings, internet blackout.
This week's unrest has killed at least 39 people including 32 on Thursday, with the toll expected to rise further after reports of clashes in nearly half of the country's 64 districts
#BREAKING Biden says still considers Xi a 'dictator'
#UPDATE US President Joe Biden said after a summit with Xi Jinping that he still considers the Chinese president a "dictator", after he sparked fury from Beijing by making the comparison earlier this year.
"Well look he is, I mean he's a dictator in the sense that he's a guy who's running a country, a Communist country, that's based on a form of government totally different than ours," Biden said at the end of a news conference when a reporter asked if he would still use the term to describe Xi
#BREAKING China will not begin armed conflict with any nation, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, after a high-stakes summit with US President Joe Biden.
"China does not seek spheres of influence, and will not fight a cold or hot war with any country," he told a gathering of business leaders in San Francisco
#BREAKING Any compromise with Russia will 'destroy' Ukrainian statehood: presidential aide to AFP
#BREAKING Putin says West used grain deal for 'political blackmail'
VIDEO: Ukrainian firefighters battle flames after a Russian strike on Odesa.
Ukraine's president accused Russia of deliberately targeting grain export infrastructure in the city after Moscow ended a landmark deal and lifted security guarantees in the Black Sea
#BREAKING Putin says situation 'difficult' in Rostov in southern Russia
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday acknowledged a "difficult" situation was unfolding in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, where the Wagner mercenary group has taken control of key military sites in an effort to oust Russian military's top brass.
#UPDATE President Vladimir Putin vowed Saturday he would not allow Russia to slip into civil war, after the leader of the Wagner mercenary force seized a key military headquarters overseeing the offensive in Ukraine.
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